HoangNhatAnh said:
Except many hardcore gamers hate Wii while they love Switch. Second, remember Switch is a portable at core, not home console like Wii. The Alliance Alive is nowhere The Legend of Legacy which sold 53,974, roughly half of it despite much better story, characters, gameplay and budget also. Yokai Watch Buster 2 was like the 10th Yokai Watch game, that mean all games have the 10th game is franchise fatigue, right? Lady Layton had a cheaper version for IOS/Android that launched at the same time as the 3DS one, so are all Ace Attorney games on 3ds and except Apollo Justice, it didn't sold that low, Lady Layton is a new game, not a remake also. Metroid Prime: Federation Forces will bomb on anything, you know? Code Name S.T.E.A.M. have good gameplay, but people look over it because very bad art style and mediocre presentation. Fire Emblem Echoes's sale underperform too (131,668), lower than Shadow Dragon on DS (144,905). Fire Emblem Warriors sold low on Switch, 3ds ver sold half of it (even if sold more than bad a bit) is nothing to praise about |
Avoid that 'hardcore gamers' bullshit, anyone that feels entitled to disregard and look down on things because in his little mind likes to think he is superior than others is an idiot. "Oh, I'm a hardcore gamer, I love Metroid Prime, but Wii... nah, I'm not touching that, motion controls, casuals, not gonna play it", laughable. Also, Switch is more Wii's (amazing console) succesor than Wii U's, with the added benefit of portability.
To address the rest of your points:
* The Alliance Alive is a game I'm eagerly awaiting and as I said before it certainly deserved better sales in Japan, but it's also a FuRyu game and they always sell like crap, so the numbers are not really that bad. As you also said, it came after The Legend of Legacy, wich wasn't exactly stellar and may have given a reason to potential buyers to shy away from it.
* On Yokai Watch, the number of games released in 4 years is the problem, the time lapse between one release and the other is what kept diminishing its sales potential, I can't remember any other franchise being milked that hard in recent times.
* Ace Attorney 5 and 6 for IOS/Android were late ports, the games were exclusive to the 3DS for quite some time, that didn't happen with Lady Layton. Lady Layton launched at the same time for IOS/Andoird/3DS in Japan and since the mobile version launched WW on that day, the release for 3DS in the west actually came later and at a higher price point.
* So Metroid Prime: Federation Forces will bomb on anything and Code Name S.T.E.A.M had mediocre presentation, you're telling me that they were new IP's that nobody asked for and for that reason were doomed from the start, why can't Ever Oasis be clasified as such? Just to be clear here, I own both Code Name S.T.E.A.M and Ever Oasis and enjoy them, I'm not trying to mock the games. On the other hand, a new IP like Miitopia seems to have clicked well, that one is probably at 800k by now, I dare say, not bad at all.
* I know that VGChartz numbers for software aren't exactly accurate, but they have Echoes at 590k. Lets just say that in reality it sold 400k, do you think in undeperformed for what the game is, a remake of what's considered by many as the worst FE, using gameplay mechanics that were already dated since the launch of Awakening in 2012?
* The point I was trying to make with the Fire Emblem Warriors comparison is that the 3DS version that was barely even shown and was clearly not the one they were trying to sell, managed to represent about a third of the total sales so far, I wonder wich version's performance Koei Tecmo should be sadder with.
